Nandamuri Balakrishna is a South Indian actor and also known as a producer politician. He was born on June 10, 1960, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Balakrishna entered the film industry as a child artist at the age of 14 with the film Tatamma Kala (1974)and has acted in more than a hundred feature films in varied roles.
Nandamuri has achieved commercial success, since the 1980s, in films such as Sahasame Jeevitham (1984), Janani Janmabhoomi (1984), Mangammagari Manavadu (1984), Apoorva Sahodarulu (1986), Muvva Gopaludu (1987), Muddula Mavayya (1989), Nari Nari Naduma Murari (1990), Lorry Driver (1990), Aditya 369 (1991), Rowdy Inspector (1992), Bangaru Bullodu (1993), Bhairava Dweepam (1994), Peddannayya (1997), Samarasimha Reddy (1999), Narasimha Naidu (2001), Chennakesava Reddy (2002), Simha (2010), Legend (2014), and Akhanda (2021). Some of these films earned him accolades, as well.
He has also acted in biographical, historical, and hagiographical films. He played poet Vemulawada Bheemakavi in Vemulawada Bheemakavi (1976); Abhimanyu in Daana Veera Soora Karna (1977); Jahangir in Akbar Salim Anarkali (1979); Narada in Sri Tirupati Venkateswara Kalyanam (1979); Sidda in Srimadvirat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra (1984) which was screened at the Moscow Film.
Festival; Krishnadevaraya in Aditya 369 (1991) which was screened at the International Film Festival of India; Satya Harischandra and Dushyanta in Brahmarshi Vishwamitra (1991); Lord Krishna and Arjuna in Sri Krishnarjuna Vijayam (1996); Pundarika in Pandurangadu (2008); his father, N. T. Rama Rao, in NTR: Mahanayakudu (2019) and NTR: Kathanayakudu (2019); and Lord Rama in Sri Rama Rajyam (2011) which received a special mention at the International Film Festival of India.
Nandamuri’s 2021 movie Akhanda marks his third collaboration with director Boyapati Srinu, featuring his dual role as Aghori Baba and a farmer. It was a super hit at the box office. Nandamuri Balakrishnan’s next project is Veera Simha Reddy(2023) which play the leading role of Veera Simha in the movie.
In 1982, when Balakrishna was 22 years old, he married Vasundhara Devi. They have two daughters, Brahmani and Tejaswini, and a son, Taraka Rama Mokshagna Teja. Brahmani married her cousin, Nara Lokesh, the son of TDP president and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu.